Topic: Great Depression

Vintage Revolutionary War print of General George Washington praying at Valley Forge

Right-wing fake history is nothing new

Mike Lofgren
Image for The cutthroat history behind the explosive

History behind "Perry Mason" grocer feud

Ashlie D. Stevens
Joe Biden; Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A major renewal of the middle class?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Food52

So why are people making water pies?

Valerio Farris - Food52
Image for What those mourning the fragility of American democracy get wrong

Our fragile democracy is nothing new

Alasdair S. Roberts - The Conversation
USPS; Maile-In-Ballots

The fallout of a crippling USPS

Patty Heyda - The Conversation
Image for Greed wins as labor loses leverage: A lesson from Depression history echoes in D.C. today

Greed wins as labor loses power

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Recession; Vacant house

Cities face COVID-19 and bankruptcy

Kevin Ward, Mark Davidson - The Conversation
Big Business; Small Business; Bailout

Robert Reich on monopoly mayhem

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
Unemployment; COVID-19

US likely to turn left as economy tanks

Matthew Rozsa
Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests wave signs and banners

The Great Depression, coronavirus style

Nomi Prins - TomDispatch.com
A man wearing a surgical face mask walks passed closed shops

U.S. Unemployment rates reaches 14.7%

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges: Yes, it can get worse

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump

Chart speaks volumes about Trump crisis

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
Tattered American flag flapping in ominous sky

Sad state of US, global economic affairs

Richard Phillips - The Globalist
Chuck Schumer; Joe Biden; Nancy Pelosi

We need a new (somewhat green) New Deal

Amanda Marcotte
Andrew Yang

Yang's income raffle isn't unprecedented

Edwin Amenta - The Conversation
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The greening of the New Deal

Steve Fraser - TomDispatch.com
Donald Trump

Companies are escaping Trump's tariffs

Lydia DePillis - ProPublica
Benjamin Spck

Dr Spock’s timeless lessons in parenting

Richard Gunderman - The Conversation
trump

Recession warning sign is here

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR's forest army

Benjamin Alexander - The Conversation
Hurricane Maria

Epic response to an epic disaster in '36

Minrose Gwin
CCC Construction

Pay for Puerto Rico, not Trump's wall

Matthew Rozsa

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